Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-24

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600 in theHs long ssrike which was recent
" declared Of.
-Four hnDdred tailors at Milwaukee,
Wis, struck Tuesday to entorce The new
scale ofprices.
Meadyille, Pa. has new industry in
the flint glass works, which when COM
pleted viii employ over 400.
The demand for machines for mining
coal is very great, and sample machines
are being furnished TO mine owners in
pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
A car heating company doing an inn
mense business in new ear heating device
viii remove from Detroit to Pittsburg to
use natural gas, and will employ 300 men.
The employees at the axe factory of j. F.
Mann, OF Bellefonte, Pa, are all out for an
advance in wages, and therefore the works
are idle.
The bill authorizing trades unions 10
place distinctive stamp on goods manu-
faeturen by them has passed the Assembly
of California, and awaits the GogeonOr's
signature.
There is strike among the wOrkmen at
the American Tube and Iron Company of
Youngstown, Ohio. The company refuse
to treat with committee of the K. of L.
or even recognize them.
The strike over the patterns from the
Bridge, Beach 4 Co. s foundry is becoming
general. No more contemplate eonspira-
cy was ever entered into in this country to
throw wOrkingmen out of employment.
The extension of the railway system this
season will create permanent employment
for large number OF skilled mechanics in
supplying railway materials and ap-
pliances.
The Detroit stove molders have re-
ceiyed the following telegram from Gener-
al Master Workman POwderly: "Hold as
you are. Delegation coming from st.
Louis. Win investigate fully and hope all
will he right"
An associate press dispatch announces
that the X. OF l.. molders at Detroit, Mich,
accepted patterns sent out from st. Louis
and went to work upon them. This can
hardly be believed, and il so shows Won
derful lack Of fraternal feeling toward their
fellow-workmen.
The Reading Hardware works has grant
ed its employees the following increase in
wages: Ten per cent to the iron workers,
10 per cent to employees of the brass foun-
dry, and 3 and 10 per cent to piece work
ers in finishing departments.
The initiatory steps have been taken for
the formation of u district of the X. of L.,
composed exclusively of men employed in
the iron industry. A meeting for Organi-
zsition will be held in Pittsburg, Pa, June
18th next.
The output of the locomotive works OF
the country now averages from thirty-siX
to forty engines per week. The output of
the textile mills OF the country, especially
in New England, will be largely increased
during the summer.
The machinists in Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City, as we'll as in some of the
smaller manufacturing town of the West,
find the rate wBges improving without the
pressure Of strikes. There is demand for
a higher class of skilled labor in mechani-
cal emplOymentS.
At last u sensible effort has been made
to solve the conyict labor question, aud
that is to employ cOnvicts in keeping the
public highways in order over the State
and matchmaking them. The country
roads could he put in good shape by CON
Wet labor and the convicts wOuld have bet
ter health.
Idle labor is becoming more and more
rare. The tendency is TO an advance in
wages, regardless of strikes. The builders
throughout the West have arrangements
made for a very active season, and build
ing material supplies of all kinds have
been literally purchased.
Labor opposes Chinese immigration, but
welcomes the fifty odd thousand South of
Europe labOrers who come with the flowers
OF spring and build railroads, and return
in the fall to live like lords on their saw
ings. The rush this year is unprecedented,
not only from Southern Europe, but from
Germany and Great Britain.
The miners of the 0rth of England hav
ing tried one-sided arbitration, voted the
other day, 1900 out of 10000 not to sub.
nit future differences to that method. The
English workers have very little faith in
the value or efficiency of arbitration. The
labor leaders are quietly advising emigra-
ton as preliminary remedy.